Senior Application Security Engineer I, Security Platform

Digital Ocean
Bengaluru
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Influencing","Organization"]

Join DigitalOcean as an Application Security Engineer within the Security Engineering team. You’ll coordinate AppSec tooling (SAST, SCA, secrets management), enhance security guardrails with Semgrep, and partner with engineering to close gaps. You’ll design internal tooling, build robust Go/Python code, and help scale security for internal dev teams across a high-scale cloud platform.

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Senior Application Security Engineer I, Security Platform

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Job Summary

Join DigitalOcean as an Application Security Engineer within the Security Engineering team. You’ll coordinate AppSec tooling (SAST, SCA, secrets management), enhance security guardrails with Semgrep, and partner with engineering to close gaps. You’ll design internal tooling, build robust Go/Python code, and help scale security for internal dev teams across a high-scale cloud platform.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Collaborate with engineers to drive secure software design and reduce security risk across the stack
  • •Operate and optimize AppSec tooling (SAST, SCA, secrets management) and translate findings into prioritized actions
  • •Contribute to expanding Semgrep rules and internal security guardrails
  • •Develop security-focused internal tooling to provide secure-by-default configurations and libraries
  • •Produce robust Go/Python code (with potential frontend work) and advocate for secure UX for internal developers

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years of software engineering experience with a security focus, with proficiency in Go, Python, and JavaScript; able to deliver robust code with good test coverage
Experience:5+ yearsCloudSecuritySaaSSoftware
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingInfluencingOrganization
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoPythonJavaScriptSemgrepSASTSCADockerKubernetesPrometheusHashiCorp VaultGitHub ActionsGRPC

Company Brief

Digital Ocean
Provides cloud infrastructure and developer-focused cloud services including scalable droplets, managed databases, Kubernetes, object storage, and networking to simplify deploying and managing applications for developers and small-to-medium businesses.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 250M to 500M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2011
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